Does a Euro-Transatlantic Co-Operative Security Order Have a Future?

Does a Euro-Transatlantic Co-Operative Security Order have a Future? 1st Meeting of the Advisory Board FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe (FES ROCPE) Vienna, 11th and 12th of April 2018 Introduction > Does a Euro-Transatlantic Co-Operative Security Order have a Future? 11th and 12th of April 2018 The current state of the European security order can be briefly summarized in six major points: » The principles of the European security order are under threat; » The conflicts in Georgia (2008) and Ukraine (2014) are not the root causes, but rather symptoms of a larger crisis; » Different interpretations of the events of the past 25 years and the resulting threat perceptions leave very little room for cooperation; » Many more stakeholders/countries are involved now than during the Cold War; » Bigger powers are interested in managing the status quo rather than changing it. For the East European-6 (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine) a divided European Home is not sustainable and might severely undermine their development and security; » A bipartisan consensus in the US on condemning Russia makes any progress on dialogue with Moscow extremely difficult. As a result, 25 years after the often proclaimed and assumed end of the division of Europe we are heading for a new separation. The dividing line has moved eastwards, towards the Russian boarder. The main explanation of the above-mentioned development lies in the contradiction in the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, usually referred to as the “Paris Charter”. Under the section “Friendly Relations among Participating States” one finds two crucial sentences. The first sentence: “With the ending of the division of Europe, we will strive for a new quality in our security relations while fully respecting each other’s freedom of choice in that respect.” This is well known and understood. But less attention was given to the next sentence: “Security is indivisible, and the security of every participating State is inseparably linked to that of all the others.” In other words: freedom of alliances is possible, but only if no one sees their security compromised by shifting memberships in alliances. The once co-operative Euro-transatlantic security order is under severe pressure from countries within Europe but also from the US and China. Multipolarism seems to be their goal, not Multilaterism. What to do about it? FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe · Reichsratsstr. 13/5 · A-1010 Vienna Phone: +43 (1) 890 3811 15 Agenda > Does a Euro-Transatlantic Co-Operative Security Order have a Future? 11th and 12th of April 2018 Wednesday Afternoon 11th of April 2018 Arrival of participants in Vienna Individual transfer from airport Vienna to Hotel Steigenberger Herrenhof, Herrengasse 10, 1010 Vienna 19:00h Welcome dinner Dinner speech by OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger Restaurant: Café Landtmann Adresse: Oppolzergasse 6, 1010 Vienna (separate entrance than the café!!) Thursday 12th of April 2018 Meeting at OSCE Secretariat Wallnerstrasse 6, 1010 Vienna, 1st Floor (please make sure that you have your ID at the entrance) 09:00 h Welcome remarks Reinhard Krumm, Head of ROCPE 09:15 h Session 1: One year of ROCPE – the idea, the implementation, the product Alexandra Dienes, Reinhard Krumm, Simon Weiss » Foresight Ukraine: Four Scenarios on the development of Ukraine » Getting out from “In-Between”: Looking at avenues for building an inclusive regional order in post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia » Islands of Cooperation: trust building measures in all three dimensions of the OSCE 10:30 h Coffee Break 11:00 h Session 2: Beyond managing the Crisis – for a more daring approach towards a Euro-Atlantic Security Order Seven minutes inputs from: Matt Rojansky, Andris Spruds, Julie Wilhelmsen 13:00 h Buffet Lunch Afternoon Departure of participants from Vienna FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe · Reichsratsstr. 13/5 · A-1010 Vienna Phone: +43 (1) 890 3811 15 Biographies > Does a Euro-Transatlantic Co-Operative Security Order have a Future? 11th and 12th of April 2018 Arjen Berkvens is Director of the Foundation Max van der Stoel, a social democratic political foundation from the Netherlands, and the secretary general of the European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity. He is a historian who graduated in 1993 from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Ireneusz Bil is Director of the Amicus Europae Foundation of Aleksander Kwaśniewski in Warsaw and secretary general of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR), an NGO based in Brussels. Between 1997 and 2006 he served in high-ranking advisory and executive positions in the National Security Bureau, Office for European Integration and Office of International Affairs in the Chancellery of the President of Poland. He is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics (WSE) and until 2006 was Assistant Professor (PhD) at his alma mater. Carmen Claudín is Senior Research Fellow Associate at CIDOB, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, where she has been the Director of Research and previously Deputy Director. She has written various chapters for books and articles in magazines and newspapers on Soviet and post-Soviet issues. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Spanish edition of Foreign Policy, Madrid. She was awarded a Master’s in Philosophy from the University of the Sorbonne, Paris, where she also did postgraduate work in History, specializing in Russian and Soviet history. Alexandra Dienes is Research Associate at FES ROCPE. Born in Moscow, she got her MA in Political Science from the Freie University Berlin in 2012 and her PhD from the University of Amsterdam in 2017. She specializes in the political economy of Russia and the post-Soviet space. Before joining FES in 2017, she taught international relations and political economy at the University of Amsterdam. As a research associate at the Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe she focuses on economic aspects of regional security and cooperation and coordinates the network of young experts FLEET. Sabine Fischer is Head of the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin. Previously, she worked at the European Union Institute for Security Studies in Paris, the Freie Universität Berlin, the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, and the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Areas of Expertise: foreign and security policy of Russia, EU-Russia relations, unsolved conflicts in the EU’s Eastern Neighborhood, and regional relations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. She holds a PhD from Johann Wolfgang- Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Thomas Greminger was appointed Secretary General of the OSCE on 18 July 2017 for a three-year term. Ambassador Greminger joined the diplomatic service of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in 1990 and has held numerous senior management positions during his career. From 2010 to 2015, Greminger was the Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the OSCE, serving as Chair of the Permanent Council during Switzerland’s 2014 OSCE Chairmanship. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Zurich and the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (General Staff) in the Swiss Armed Forces. Walter Kemp is Senior Advisor to the Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Between 2010 and 2016 he worked at the International Peace Institute (IPI). Previously he served for four years as spokesman and speechwriter at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Between 1996 and 2006 he worked for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), including Senior Adviser to the Secretary General and OSCE Chairmanships. He holds a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics, as well as degrees in political science and history from the University of Toronto and McGill University. FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe · Reichsratsstr. 13/5 · A-1010 Vienna Phone: +43 (1) 890 3811 15 Biographies > Does a Euro-Transatlantic Co-Operative Security Order have a Future? 11th and 12th of April 2018 Giorgi Khelashvili is Lecturer of International Relations at Tbilisi State University, and a team member of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Head of Parliament of Georgia. In 2013-2016 he served as a Deputy Chief of Mission at the Embassy of Georgia in the USA. He worked as policy analyst at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia; a visiting fellow at the Monterey Center for Non-Proliferation Studies; at the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center; and at the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies of the George Washington University. He has an MPhil and DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford. Andrey Kortunov is Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), a non-profit partnership established by order of the President of the Russian Federation. Previously he was Deputy Director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies. He is the founder and first president of the Moscow Public Science Foundation. He graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and did postgraduate studies at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies, USSR Academy of Sciences. He has a PhD degree in History. Reinhard Krumm is Director of FES ROCPE in Vienna. From 1991 to 1998 he worked as a journalist in the former Soviet Union and was the Moscow correspondent of Der Spiegel magazine from 1996 to 1998. He joined the Friedrich-Ebert- Stiftung in 2002, serving as the Head of the Regional Central Asian office in Tashkent/Uzbekistan from 2003 to 2007, as the Head of the Russian office in Moscow from 2007 to 2012 and from 2012 to 2016 as the Head of the Department of Central and Eastern Europe in Berlin.

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